Where: Austria (47.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 16.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hochalm Member (Koessen Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• Sagenites reticulatus Zone, Hochalm Member, Unit 3
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: A. Tomasovych. 2006. Linking taphonomy to community-level abundance: insights into compositional fidelity of the Upper Triassic shell concentrations (Eastern Alps). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 235:355-381 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61011: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 29.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Bakevellia praecursor" = Bakevellia (Bakevelloides) praecursor
"Bakevellia praecursor" = Bakevellia (Bakevelloides) praecursor Quenstedt 1858 oyster | |
Cassianella inaequiradiata oyster | |
Rhaetavicula contorta Portlock 1843 pearl oyster | |
Protocardia rhaetica Merian 1853 cockle | |